Norman Gallichan
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| Full name | Norman Gallichan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
3 June 1906 Palmerston North, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
25 March 1969 (aged 62) Taupo, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 33) | 24 July 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 27 July 1937 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1929/30–1938/39 | Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 23 June 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norman Gallichan (3 June 1906 – 25 March 1969) was a cricketer who played for Wellington and New Zealand.
Gallichan was educated at Palmerston North High School.[1] A tall slow left-arm bowler and lower-order batsman, he played most of his cricket for Manawatu in the second-class Hawke Cup competition, appearing irregularly for Wellington between 1929-30 and 1938-39.
Playing his only full season of Plunket Shield cricket in 1936-37, he took 10 wickets in three matches at an average of 23.50[2] and made 84 runs at 28.00,[3] and he was a late selection for the 1937 New Zealand tour of England. He did well in the early games, but was reckoned by Wisden to have been inconsistent.[4] His career-best innings figures came in the match against Scotland just before the Second Test, when he took 6 for 46 and 3 for 38 to help the New Zealanders to a narrow victory; his best match figures came near the end of the tour when he took 5 for 52 and 5 for 20 against Minor Counties in a more emphatic victory. On the tour as a whole he took 59 first-class wickets at an average of 23.94.[5]
His one Test match came in the Second Test at Manchester, where he replaced the injured Alby Roberts.[6] He took three wickets and scored 32 runs in two innings, but Roberts returned for the final Test of the three-match tour.
He played for Manawatu in the Hawke Cup from 1924-25 to 1946-47, taking 177 wickets at 11.59 and making 1409 runs at 32.76.[7]
Gallichan died in Taupo in 1969 and was buried at Taupo Public Cemetery.[8]
References
- ↑ New Zealand Truth, 13 November 1930, p. 16.
- ↑ Plunket Shield bowling 1936-37
- ↑ Plunket Shield batting 1936-37
- ↑ "New Zealanders in England in 1937". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1938 ed.). Wisden. pp. 192–196.
- ↑ New Zealanders in British Isles 1937 bowling
- ↑ "New Zealanders in England in 1937". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1938 ed.). Wisden. pp. 224–226.
- ↑ "Obituaries, 1969". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1970 ed.). Wisden. p. 1021.
- ↑ "Deceased details". Taupo District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.